Anna Burdeshaw Fretwell

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Practice Areas

  • Healthcare Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations
  • Medical Malpractice Defense
  • Premises Liability
  • Products Liability

Since 1998, Anna has been defending physicians, hospitals, nurse midwives, nurses, and other healthcare providers and institutions against claims of malpractice and related allegations, such as those involving consent, credentialing, and billing. Anna defended her first medical malpractice case at trial in 2000 and has continued to regularly take complex cases to trial throughout her career. She has successfully litigated several matters in the Georgia appellate courts, as well, in addition to her work handling traditional civil litigation. As a native of Columbus, Georgia, Anna frequently is referred cases pending in the Courts of Muscogee County, Georgia.

Anna also represents physicians and hospitals in administrative matters, including proceedings involving the State Medical Board and investigations and audits conducted by Medicare, Medicaid, and related entities.

Anna is frequently recognized by her peers as a Georgia Super Lawyer and Rising Star.

In addition to her active litigation practice, Anna serves as Huff Powell Bailey's Managing Partner.

  • Defense verdicts in multiple cases involving catastrophic birth injuries.
  • Defense verdicts in numerous cases involving death and serious lifelong post-surgical injuries, including permanent neurologic injury, extensive scarring after plastic surgery, and permanent pain.
  • Extensive experience in cases involving obstetrics and gynecology, including defense of birth asphyxia, shoulder dystocia, reproductive medicine, and gynecologic surgery cases.
  • Particular expertise in ophthalmology cases, including defense of more than 10 ophthalmologists throughout the state of Georgia against allegations involving LASIK, cataract surgery, macular degeneration, and retinal detachment.

  • Georgia SuperLawyer, 2018
  • Clerk, The Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, 1998 – 1999
  • Repeatedly named by Georgia SuperLawyers as a “Rising Star” and “Super Lawyer”
  • Martindale Hubbell, AV Peer Rating
  • Barrister, Lumpkin Inn of Court, 1999 – 2001

  • State Bar of Georgia
  • Georgia Court of Appeals
  • Georgia Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia

  • B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (1995)
  • J.D., summa cum laude, University of Georgia (1998)
    • Woodruff Scholar (1995 – 1998)
    • Georgia Law Review (1996 – 1998); Articles Editor (1997 – 1998)

  • Member, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF) Junior Board, 2011 – 2013
  • AVLF Saturday Lawyer Program, volunteer lawyer
  • AVLF Victims of Domestic Violence Program, volunteer lawyer
  • Supporter, Atlanta Legal Aid Society Grandparent/Relative Caregiver Project

  • What a Mesh: Navigating the Morass of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair and Other Sticky Surgical Situations, Georgia OB/GYN Society Annual Meeting, 2013
  • Tort Reform in Georgia: Practical Implications and Applications, Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists, Annual Meeting, 2007
  • Risk Reduction in the Age of Electronic Everything, Emory Eye Center’s Grand Rounds, January 2019
  • Routinely invited by Emory University Health System to present on a variety of topics to their hospitals, physicians, residents, nurses and mid-level providers

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